I am running Mathematica 10 (Student Edition) on Mac OS X 10.7.5 on an old Mac Pro. I have lots of extra RAM that the system isn't touching, and I would like to give some of it to Mathematica in the ...

I am trying to make a plot displaying the following type of information. I have a finite set of 2D-coordinates. For each coordinate point, I have a 2D vector associated to that point. The vector is ...

I am plotting the density function of a beta distribution and I specify that aspect ratio should be one. I expect the x and y axes should have the same scale (unit length), but it turns out not. How ...

Woud there be an elegant way to use a held option ?
For example if I need to pass by reference several variables but I don't always need all of them, it can be useful. For example if I want to append ...

(Posting as a self-answered question to share a technique I discovered)
In a certain project, I have many function definitions in which all parameters should be optional and come with default values. ...

Let's say I created a 3D plot in Mathematica. It's not oriented the way I want it, so I manually rotate it (in the output cell) to a desired view. (I tried playing with some view options in the code, ...

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